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Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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So Twitter was at $70 per share a year ago. So what? Jack Dorsey was CEO a year ago, too. The share price was $33 less than a month ago. But, despite an absolutely incredible roller-coaster news cycle, things have been definitely trending down at Twitter ($33/share last month), which was reflected in its share price. The current executive team (and Dorsey) had wasted time focusing on things that didn't matter instead…

"NO RISK"? There is a very clear risk of transformating the social media titan that is Twitter into Truth Social, a sideshow of a forum that is dedicated to the worship of one man. That would plummet the stock price.

Not for the current shareholders, who would have cashed out by then. They would have no stake in MuskTwitter (tm).

Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Twitter is a mob launch pad. It's ran by outrage addicted, sadistic, cruel bullies. It's as if all of the world's village idiots joined forces and became the ruling class in culture and speech. It is Twitter that has normalized and promoted inhumane tactics like context switching, bad faith discussion, talking behind you to others instead of towards you (quote tweeting), screenshotting, obsessively digging through on…

Twitter is who you follow. It may take some configuration but all of the other stuff can - for now - be removed.

Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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Twitter is a mob launch pad. It's ran by outrage addicted, sadistic, cruel bullies. It's as if all of the world's village idiots joined forces and became the ruling class in culture and speech. It is Twitter that has normalized and promoted inhumane tactics like context switching, bad faith discussion, talking behind you to others instead of towards you (quote tweeting), screenshotting, obsessively digging through on…

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Re: Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

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I don't think on Twitter we should be 'free speech absolutists'. Its a private company, no need for lots of people. What I would actually like is seriously shooting down these idiotic bots. Like seriously, they have the exact same name and picture as the main account. How the fuck do we not have machine learning, fuck a bunch of bash-scripts to figure this out? It makes the platform borderline unusable how much crypt…

Musk already proposed a small fee per user to verify them. This would add a cost to bots, which would dramatically reduce the numbers. https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-musk-twitter-dogecoin.ht...
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